Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

DEAD box helicases as promising molecular tools for engineering abiotic stress tolerance in plants

S Nidumukkala, L Tayi, RK Chittela… - Critical reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Diverse abiotic stresses constitute one of the major factors which adversely affect the normal
plant growth and development which results worldwide in decreased agricultural …

Overexpression of an Agave Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Improves Plant Growth and Stress Tolerance

D Liu, R Hu, J Zhang, HB Guo, H Cheng, L Li… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
It has been challenging to simultaneously improve photosynthesis and stress tolerance in
plants. Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a CO2-concentrating mechanism that …

NHX1 and eIF4A1-stacked transgenic sweetpotato shows enhanced tolerance to drought stress

Y Zhang, G Deng, W Fan, L Yuan, H Wang, P Zhang - Plant Cell Reports, 2019 - Springer
Key message Co-expression of Na+/H+ antiporter NHX1 and DEAD-box RNA helicase
eIF4A1 from Arabidopsis positively regulates drought stress tolerance by improving ROS …

Ectopic expression of nucleolar DEAD-Box RNA helicase OsTOGR1 confers improved heat stress tolerance in transgenic Chinese cabbage

R Yarra, Y Xue - Plant Cell Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Key message The DEAD-Box RNA helicase Os TOGR1 positively regulates heat
stress tolerance in Chinese cabbage. Abstract Non-heading Chinese cabbage (Brassica …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering the role of helicases and translocases: A multifunctional gene family safeguarding plants from diverse environmental adversities

AA Sami, S Arabia, RH Sarker, T Islam - Current Plant Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Helicases and translocases comprise one of the largest and highly conserved gene families
in eukaryotic organisms, including plant. Members of this gene family are involved in a …

Genetic engineering of indica rice with AtDREB1A gene for enhanced abiotic stress tolerance

GM Latha, KV Raman, JM Lima, D Pattanayak… - Plant Cell, Tissue and …, 2019 - Springer
Drought and cold stresses are major abiotic stresses that affect rice productivity. Therefore,
enhancing tolerance to these stresses is necessary for sustaining rice productivity …

[HTML][HTML] Helicase: A genetic tool for providing stress tolerance in plants

MD Mohapatra, S Poosapati, RK Sahoo, DM Swain - Plant Stress, 2023 - Elsevier
Alteration of stress (abiotic and biotic) constitutes one of the major problems for normal
plants health. In the present scenario, new molecular tools are broadly utilized to improve …

Understanding the thermal response of rice eukaryotic transcription factor eIF4A1 towards dynamic temperature stress: insights from expression profiling and …

DL Singha, J Maharana, D Panda… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs) are the group of regulatory proteins that are
involved in the initiation of translation events. Among them, eIF4A1, a member of the DEAD …

Specific problems of genomic DNA extraction from plants: ways for solution

UA Galaktionova, VN Bolshakov… - Botanicheskii …, 2023 - journals.rcsi.science
In modern botanical studies, various molecular genetic methods such as genome
sequencing, PCR, AFLP-analysis, etc. are often involved. These methods require the use of …